I picked up the magazine specifically for Harold Holzer’s piece, and found it not very forcefully argued. He quotes Grant’s famous line from his memoirs, which is not likely to cut much ice with the unreconstructed crowd. He would have done better to cite more fully that actual words of the various articles of secession — those old fire-eaters had no hesitation about saying their secession was about preserving and expanding the institution of slavery, first and last. It’s their descendants, literal and figurative, who seem to have the most trouble coming to grips with it.

I choice this magazine for the article Getting Away With Murder. I am doing a summary over it for my History to 1877 class. This is a great article and gives very good detail on the subject. I learned some stuff I did not know about americas civil war and I love history. A great magazine and article.

Dulce bellum inexpertis

“I am sending you these little incidents as I hear them well authenticated. They form, to the friends of the parties, part of the history of the glorious 21st. More anon.”

About

Hello! I’m Harry Smeltzer and welcome to Bull Runnings, where you'll find my digital history project on the First Battle of Bull Run which is organized under the Bull Run Resources section. I'll also post my thoughts on the processes behind the project and commentary on the campaign, but pretty much all things Civil War are fair game. You'll only find musings on my “real job” or my personal life when they relate to this project. My mother always told me "never discuss politics or religion in mixed company”, and that's sound advice where current events are concerned.

The Project

This site is more than a blog. Bull Runnings also hosts digitized material pertaining to First Bull Run. In the Bull Run Resources link in the masthead and also listed below are links to Orders of Battle, After Action Reports, Official Correspondence, Biographical Sketches, Diaries, Letters, Memoirs, Newspaper Accounts and much, much more. Take some time to surf through the material. This is a work in process with no end in sight, so check back often!